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Proverbs 2
1My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
2So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
3Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
4If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
6For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
8that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
9Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
10For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;
13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
14who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;
15who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
17who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
18for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.
19None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
20that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
22But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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Adultery: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:16–19
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words / who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. / For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God: Means of Preservation From Proverbs 2:10–20
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul. / Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, / to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
Backsliders: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:17
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Character of the Wicked: Delighting in the Iniquity of Others Proverbs 2:14
from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:10, 11, 16–22
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul. / Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, / It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Chastity: Preserved by Wisdom Proverbs 2:10, 11, 16
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul. / Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, / It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Company: Evil Proverbs 2:11, 12, 16, 19
Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, / to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity, / It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Darkness: A Course of Sin Proverbs 2:13
from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
Death of the Wicked Proverbs 2:22
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
Desire: Spiritual Proverbs 2:3–5
if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, / if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, / then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
Divorce: Women: Could Obtain Proverbs 2:17
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Falsehood: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:12–15
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity, / from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness, / from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
Fear of God: Reverence Proverbs 2:5
then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
Forgetting God: A Characteristic of the Wicked Proverbs 2:17
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Gifts from God: Spiritual: Wisdom Proverbs 2:6
For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
God: Preserver Proverbs 2:7, 8
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity, / to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
God: Providence of Proverbs 2:21
For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
Godly Fear: Searching the Scriptures Gives the Understanding of Proverbs 2:3–5
if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, / if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, / then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
Harlot (Prostitute): Shamelessness of Proverbs 2:16
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Having Integrity Proverbs 2:7
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,
Houses: The Flat Roofs of had often Booths on Them Proverbs 2:19
None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
Hunger: Spiritual Proverbs 2:3–5
if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, / if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, / then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
Integrity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:2, 5, 9
if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding, / then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God. / Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.
Judgments: Different Kinds of Destruction Proverbs 2:22
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
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Proverbs 2:1-9 Verses 1-9
Those who earnestly seek heavenly wisdom, will never complain that they have lost their labour; and the freeness of the gift does not do away the necessity of our diligence, Joh 6:27 Let them seek, and they shall find it; let them ask, and it shall be given them. Observe who are thus favoured. They are the righteous, on whom the image of God is renewed, which consists in righteousness. If we depend upon God, and seek to him for wisdom, he will enable us to keep the paths of judgment.
Proverbs 2:10-22 Verses 10-22
If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and temptations without. The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant, lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in such ways! They take pleasure in sin; both in committing it, and in seeing others commit it. Every wise man will shun such company. True wisdom will also preserve from those who lead to fleshly lusts, which defile the body, that living temple, and war against the soul. These are evils which excite the sorrow of every serious mind, and cause every reflecting parent to look upon his children with anxiety, lest they should be entangled in such fatal snares. Let the sufferings of others be our warnings. Our Lord Jesus deters from sinful pleasures, by the everlasting torments which follow them. It is very rare that any who are caught in this snare of the devil, recover themselves; so much is the heart hardened, and the mind blinded, by the deceitfulness of this sin. Many think that this caution, besides the literal sense, is to be understood as a caution against idolatry, and subjecting the soul to the body, by seeking any forbidden object. The righteous must leave the earth as well as the wicked; but the earth is a very different thing to them. To the wicked it is all the heaven they ever shall have; to the righteous it is the place of preparation for heaven. And is it all one to us, whether we share with the wicked in the miseries of their latter end, or share those everlasting joys that shall crown believers?